zazouswing
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| What I really hate about some music While I agree lyrics are important - and bad lyrics can quickly ruin an otherwise excellent song - keep in mind most rules are made to be broken. Listen to CAN and tell me what you think of repetitive lyrics. Also, 12 bar blues is a structure and ... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this Your tx is 1:10. Take what the input resistance is at the phono preamp - it should be 47k, and divide it by 100 (10 squared). That is 470 ohms if you have 47k. This number should be at least 10 times the internal resistance of the cartridge. I sus... | |
| Roots, a question for younger audiophiles, how did you start your journey? After collecting records for 20 years, and finding Needle Doctor on line as a source for my DJ decks, I caught the bug with a simple pair of Dali bookshelf speakers. Then, when looking for an upgraded source, I thought the amplifier should use pre... | |
| I need advice on a 300b tube Does your new amp have individual bias pots, or does it have auto bias or just one shared pot? Does it have hum pots? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dark - Round the Corners. I usually run away from proper Prog-Rock like a dog who just got out of the yard - but man, that fuzztone guitar work. An album stuck between genre’s for sure. JassStereo’s Henry Red Allen / Coleman Hawkins discs. I l... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. My guess is that most of the responses will be something like ‘OK, I guess’. For me, my main system itself is somewhat modest. 2 tables, 3 arms, Groovemaster w/ Miyajima carts. I can listen to 78’s, 16” transcription records, and stereo recordings... | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. I’ve had a lot of luck with the Icon Audio gear. Currently using an LA 4 in one system. They don’t get a lot of attention here and I’m not certain why. I would make certain whatever you get is tube rectified. I’m generally of the impression that a... | |
| Proper set up: worth the chase I’ve always operated under the general impression that we get stuck on the math associated with voltage but ignore resistance. I started a resistance block diagram of my system and was able to identify and correct some mis-matches to a great impro... | |
| MM, MC, or MI cartridge @rauliruegas - I believe I have a very different understanding of compliance than you. Firstly, compliance as I understand it is largely measurement of vertical suspension. I have several low compliance mono cartridges and I am accustom to dealing... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Maybe the Slits version of Heard It Through the Grapevine could be on this list. Sam Gopal’s Back Door Man (the original is fine, but just fine). Also, Nina Simone’s Love Me or Leave Me. | |
| How Audiphiles are Different Ah - the human condition - audiophile installment. Great stuff. We can’t go on; we must go on. | |
| Getting a new electrical panel for the house. Like @audioman58 indicated - see what they can do to up their ground. We use 200% neutral panels. Double ground is similar idea. I’d also add a nema pullbox just as they leave the panel and run the building ground through it. This would give som... | |
| Why do hipsters prefer analog? I dunno - why do old audiophiles like such terrible music? The point being, the question was doomed from the start. It takes a generalization (hipsters) and leads into a unfalsifiable claim of preference (prefer analog). This is covered in Philos... | |
| 33rpm vs 45rpm - which is better Never dived into the 45 vs 33 question - but I always found 78's were the best compared to a 33 of the same song. I assumed this was because faster speed = longer groove = the ability for more information to be captured in the cut. Applying that l... | |
| The vanishing stereo rack Amazing - you can’t even see the slot where the records go in. |